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Dr. Amna Qureshi,
Assistant Professor

Information about Dr. Amna Qureshi at the University of Bradford.

School of CSAI&E
(Faculty of Eng & Digital Technologies)
Email:
a.qureshi19@bradford.ac.uk
Telephone:
+44 1274 234997
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Biography

Dr Amna Qureshi is an Assistant Professor in Cybersecurity at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Bradford. She is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA). Before joining the University of Bradford, Amna worked as a Senior Researcher at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain. Her research interests focus on designing, analysing, and implementing cryptographic protocols with security and privacy guarantees using concepts of applied cryptography, distributed systems, game theory, and logic programming.

Research

Dr Amna Qureshi's research area is cybersecurity, mainly focused on designing and developing secure and privacy-preserving protocols within distributed systems and future networking technologies, including IoT, cloud & fog computing, and blockchain. She is an active researcher with 22+ peer-reviewed journals and international conferences in systems security and privacy. She is also a reviewer of articles in various JCR-indexed scientific journals and a programme committee member at various international conferences. In 2018, she received an advanced cybersecurity research team excellence grant from the Spanish National Cybersecurity Institute (INCIBE) to perform research in the sphere of cybersecurity.

Research Interests:

  • Intellectual property protection
  • Applied Cryptography
  • Identity & access management
  • IoT security
  • Privacy preservation
  • Cyberbullying detection

Research supervision

Dr. Amna Qureshi is responsible for the supervision of 1 postgraduate researchers at the University of Bradford.

Teaching

Details on teaching interests, highlights and modules are available for Dr. Amna Qureshi as follows:

Teaching interests

Information Security; Penetration Testing; Security Standards

Teaching modules

Information about programme modules taught by Dr. Amna Qureshi.
Title Subject Module code Year
Ethical Hacking
ISO27000 Framework (Information Security Management System)

Professional activities

Information about education, employment and areas of particular interest for Dr. Amna Qureshi is as follows:

Employment

  • University of Bradford - in the year 2021 (specified as 26/10/2021)

Education

  • Universitat Oberta de Catalunya - PhD in the year 2012 (specified as 03/01/2012)

Publications

There are 26 publications involving or that are attributed to Dr. Amna Qureshi. They are listed as:

  • book chapter (4)
  • conference publication (12)
  • journal article (2)
  • peer reviewed journal (8)

Book Chapter

Dr. Amna Qureshi has 4 publication(s) listed under book chapter.
Title Year Publication name Journal Volume Pages Authors Editors ISSN Publisher DOI Location
IoTFC: A Secure and Privacy Preserving Architecture for Smart Buildings 2021 Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering book series Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering book series LNICST 344 Amna Qureshi and M. Shahwaiz Afaqui and Julián Salas Springer, Cham 10.1007/978-3-030-66922-5_7
Enabling collaborative privacy in user-generated emergency reports 2016 Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) Qureshi, A.;Rifà -Pous, H.;Megías, D.; Springer, Cham 10.1007/978-3-319-45381-1_19
VSPReP: Verifiable, Secure and Privacy-Preserving Remote Polling with Untrusted Computing Devices 2018 Communications in Computer and Information Science Communications in Computer and Information Science 878 61 - 79 Qureshi A.;Megías D.;Rifà-Pous H. 1865-0929 Springer, Cham 10.1007/978-3-319-94421-0_5
Analysis of Detection Systems in a Software-Defined Network 2023 Intelligent Computing Intelligent Computing 739 Oluwapelumi Fakolujo and Amna Qureshi 978-3-031-37962-8 Springer 10.1007/978-3-031-37963-5_91

Conference Publication

Dr. Amna Qureshi has 12 publication(s) listed under conference publication.
Title Year Publication name Journal Volume Pages Authors Editors ISSN Publisher DOI Location
Zero Trust Model Implementation Considerations in Financial Institutions: A Proposed Framework 2023 10th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud) 10th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud) Clement Daah;Amna Qureshi 979-8-3503-1635-3 IEEE 10.1109/ficloud58648.2023.00019
Enhanced collusion resistance for segment-wise recombined fingerprinting in P2P distribution systems 2016 2016 ACM Information Hiding and Multimedia Security Workshop 2016 ACM Information Hiding and Multimedia Security Workshop 181 Megías, D.; Qureshi, A. 10.1145/2909827.2931096
State-of-the-art, challenges and open issues in integrating security and privacy in P2P content distribution systems 2016 2016 11th International Conference on Digital Information Management, ICDIM 2016 2016 11th International Conference on Digital Information Management, ICDIM 2016 Qureshi, A.;Rifa-Pous, H.;Megias, D.; 10.1109/ICDIM.2016.7829784
Electronic payment and encouraged cooperation in a secure and privacy-preserving P2P content distribution system 2015 Seventh International Conferences on Advances in Multimedia Seventh International Conferences on Advances in Multimedia 8 - 14 Qureshi, A.;Rifà -Pous, H.;Megías, D.; IARA
Detecting Deepfake Videos using Digital Watermarking 2021 Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA) Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA) 2021 Amna Qureshi, David Megías and Minoru Kuribayashi 2640-0103 IEEE
A Study on Privacy-Preserving Data Aggregation Techniques for Secure Smart Metering System 2021 Spanish Meeting on Cryptology and Information Security (RECSI) Spanish Meeting on Cryptology and Information Security (RECSI) 16 Farzana Kabir, Amna Qureshi, David Megías 978–84–09–29150–2 Spain
Blockchain-based P2P multimedia content distribution using collusion-resistant fingerprinting 2019 2019 Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA) 2019 Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA) 1606 - 1615 Qureshi, A.;Megías, D. 9781728132488 10.1109/APSIPAASC47483.2019.9023054
A Survey on Incident Reporting and Management Systems 2018 Spanish Meeting on Cryptology and Information Security (RECSI) Spanish Meeting on Cryptology and Information Security (RECSI) 10 Qureshi, A.;Megías, D.;Rifà -Pous, H.;
A review of channel dependent scheduling in wireless networks 2012 15th International Multitopic Conference, INMIC 2012 15th International Multitopic Conference, INMIC 2012 413 - 416 Afaqui M.S.;Qureshi A. 9781467322508 10.1109/INMIC.2012.6511471
Secure and anonymous multimedia content distribution in peer-to-peer networks 2014 Sixth International Conferences on Advances in Multimedia Sixth International Conferences on Advances in Multimedia Qureshi, A.;Rifà -Pous, H.;Megías, D.; IARIA
Peer-to-Peer Content Distribution using Anonymous Fingerprinting – Proof of Concept 2016 Spanish Meeting on Cryptology and Information Security (RECSI) Spanish Meeting on Cryptology and Information Security (RECSI) Amna Qureshi, Jordi Casas-Roma, David Megías, Helena Rifà-Pous
Cyberbullying Detection in Urdu Language Using Machine Learning 2022 2022 International Conference on Emerging Trends in Electrical, Control, and Telecommunication Engineering (ETECTE) 2022 International Conference on Emerging Trends in Electrical, Control, and Telecommunication Engineering (ETECTE) Sara Khan and Amna Qureshi 978-1-6654-9243-0 IEEE 10.1109/ETECTE55893.2022.10007379 Pakistan

Journal Article

Dr. Amna Qureshi has 2 publication(s) listed under journal article.
Title Year Publication name Journal Volume Pages Authors Editors ISSN Publisher DOI Location
Enhancing Zero Trust Models in the Financial Industry through Blockchain Integration: A Proposed Framework 2024 MDPI Electronics MDPI Electronics 13 Clement Daah;Amna Qureshi;Irfan Awan;Savas Konur MDPI https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics13050865
A Multi-Layered Defence Strategy against DDoS Attacks in SDN/NFV-Based 5G Mobile Networks 2024 MDPI Electronics MDPI Electronics 13 Morteza Sheibani;Savas Konur;Irfan Awan;Amna Qureshi MDPI https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics13081515

Peer Reviewed Journal

Dr. Amna Qureshi has 8 publication(s) listed under peer reviewed journal.
Title Year Publication name Journal Volume Pages Authors Editors ISSN Publisher DOI Location
Survey on Decentralized Fingerprinting Solutions: Copyright Protection through Piracy Tracing 2020 Journal of Computers 9 David Megías;Minoru Kuribayashi;Amna Qureshi; 10.3390/computers9020026
Entropy-Based Semi-Fragile Watermarking of Remote Sensing Images in the Wavelet Domain 2019 Entropy 21 Jordi Serra-Ruiz;Amna Qureshi;David Megías; 10.3390/e21090847
SeVEP: Secure and Verifiable Electronic Polling System 2019 Ieee Access 7 Amna Qureshi;David Megías;Helena Rifà-Pous; 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2897252
PSUM: Peer-to-peer multimedia content distribution using collusion-resistant fingerprinting 2016 Journal of Network and Computer Applications 66 Qureshi, A.;Megías, D.;Rifà -Pous, H.; 10.1016/j.jnca.2016.03.007
Framework for Preserving Security and Privacy in Peer-to-Peer Content Distribution Systems 2015 Expert Systems with Applications 42 Qureshi, A.;Megías, D.;Rifà -Pous, H.; 10.1016/j.eswa.2014.08.053
Blockchain-based multimedia content protection: Review and open challenges 2021 Applied Sciences (APPS) 11 1 - 24 Qureshi, A. and Megías, D. 2076-3417 MDPI 10.3390/app11010001
Collaborative and efficient privacy-preserving critical incident management system 2021 Expert Systems with Applications 163 Amna Qureshi, Victor Garcia-Font, Helena Rifà-Pous, David Megías Elsevier 10.1016/j.eswa.2020.113727
Collusion-resistant and privacy-preserving P2P multimedia distribution based on recombined fingerprinting 2017 Expert Systems with Applications 71 David Megías and Amna Qureshi Elsevier 10.1016/j.eswa.2016.11.015